Democrats allow Trump a dictator’s power

Lee Camp, writing for Truthdig, pointed out that Democrats in Congress have no qualms about giving President Donald Trump the powers of a dictator. Instead of standing up for the American people, he said, corporate-owned Democrats have strengthened the president.

The Democrats have helped, voted for, and often argued in favor of all of the following:

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I’d add to that the broader theme of expecting the various security/intel agencies to rescue the US from Trump.

TV and other media repeatedly invite former intel/security figures to be the voice of authority. To play the part of experts/pundits, not on the police-type work their agencies are assigned to do, but on the subject of how democratic politics should work. On what is and is not proper behavior and speech in politics, etc.

This trains audiences to take the men and women from these agencies at their word, when the mass of US history says decisions about civil liberties should come from elsewhere.

I greatly admire Thomas Frank, and his current Harper’s article is particularly good. His argument is that in order to campaign successfully against Republicans for being the party of a minority of wealth, Democrats will have to stop being the party of a minority of education. I think that’s right.

Michael Gerson, an Evangelical Christian, criticizes fellow Evangelicals for being blind to Donald Trump’s moral transgressions. I think that’s right, too, but those of us on the left side of the fence have our own hypocrisies.

Here are the links to the two articles for the benefit of interested readers.